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“A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.”

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Author:John Sununu

“The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.”

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Author:John Sununu

“Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.”

Ifs Needs Numbers Failing Waste Resources Tasks Vote Campaigns Voters Urgent Undecided

Author:James Surowiecki

“I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. 'Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.'”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.”

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Author:Scott Walker

“Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.”

Political Politics Issues Voting Voters

Author:George Will

“Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.”

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Author:George Will

“Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.”

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Author:George Will

“As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.”

“Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.”

“I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.”

President Wonder Idiot Voters Speakers

Author:Robbie Williams

“I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.”

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Author:Bob Woodward

“Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.”

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Author:Andrew Young

“Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.”

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Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.”

Years Has Beens Young Process Effects Voters Trends Crucial Electoral Process

Author:Howard Rheingold

“There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.”

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”

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Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.”

“These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.”

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Book:The White Tiger: A Novel

Source: The White Tiger: A Novel

“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”

Men Difficult Groups Advantage Welfare Voters

Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.”

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Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!”

Ifs Enough Vote Election Dumb Voters Monkeys

Book:A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.”

Politician Voters

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“I think the voters can make up their own minds.”

Thinking Mind Voters

Author:Jeb Bush

“Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.”

Immigration Checks Voters Latino Gateways

Author:Jeb Bush

“You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.”

States Remember Independent Election Voters Florida Independent Voters

Author:Jeb Bush

“I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.”

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Book:Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)

Source: Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)

“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.”

“The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.”

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Author:Herman Cain

“We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.”

Wells Long Helping Problem America Order Politician Voters Businessman

Author:Herman Cain

“Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?”

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.”

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Book:Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence

Source: Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence

“Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.”

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Author:Graydon Carter

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.”

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Author:Alexander Fraser Tytler

“Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.”

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Author:Mark B. Cohen

“Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.”

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Author:Mike Turzai

“Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.”

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Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.”

“Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.”

People May Self Country Bigs Government Values Liberty Politician Redemption Voters Virtuous Big Government Frugal Free Country Self Reliant

Author:Charley Reese

“If you have a large bloc of Americans who believe you're trying to keep their ... fellow Hispanics down and deprive them of an opportunity, obviously that's going to have an effect...The Republican Party has failed to understand to a significant degree the importance of this issue to our Hispanic voters. I think the trend will continue of lack of support from Hispanic voters and also as you look at the demographics of states like mine, that means we will go from Republican to Democrat over time.”

“Even Republicans seem to think that these undocumented Democrats could be made [GOP] voters...and what happens is that two out every three that would be legalized [and] become Democrats. And it's not 12 million. It's more like 20 million...But it isn't just the equation of 2/3 of over 20 million that will vote for the guy who opposes our conservative candidate whoever that might be, but it's also those who will leave us if we fail them...We have to go back and tie together and restore the pillars of American exceptionalism and the rule of law is essential.”

“Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.”

Liberty Special Media Congress Protection Ass Voters Bad Ass Oversight

Author:Trey Gowdy

“Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.”

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Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Source: Churchill By Himself

“The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.”

“Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.”

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Author:Bill Moyers

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